Black Goat's Nest [DRAFT]

Re:Alia

Thanks to my wonderful beta, Lilster.

I may slow down updates since school is starting so if it takes a bit of time to update that's why. I REALLY don't plan on abandoning this. I enjoy writing this but school work might get in the way.

I'll try to at least put out a chapter per week but forgive me if class gets in the way and I don't.

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Kaneki yawned as he sat up in his bed in the hospital wing. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He'd gotten back from Tokyo rather late and even though he was used to odd hours thanks to hunger his body felt particularly stubborn about waking up. Normally he would've slept in but that wasn't an option today. He was discharged from the hospital wing today and that meant he had classes to get to.

Hermione and Ron would be here soon and he internally patted himself on the back for coming up with a decent excuse for not eating again.

He'd told them that he'd eat something in the Hospital wing since he didn't want to deal with the stares that would undoubtedly be directed at him if he walked into the Great hall.

"What are you going to eat Kaneki?" Madam Pomfrey asked.

"Actually I have some jerky in my bag. Could you hand it to me?" Kaneki said.

"Sure, but are you positive that you don't want something else too?" She queried as she picked up his backpack and handed it to him

"Yeah, I don't like heavy meals. Something small and light is more my style, especially in the mornings," Kaneki reassured as he dug around in the surprisingly organized bag. The shrinking charm on the sack of jerky had worn off at this point but since it was in the expanded bag it wasn't a problem.

He pulled out two strips of jerky to eat but the moment it touched his tongue he felt the skin above his kagune burn.

He expertly pushed his longing for more flesh down and ignored the organ's painful plea. The meat tasted so much better than ghoul flesh.

Ghoul tasted like it should've been inedible but he always managed to choke it down. Unfortunately, it was also incredibly addictive.

His body was most certainly addicted if the withdrawal symptoms were anything to go by and if you developed a half kakuja then you were in too deep to try and quit. At this point, his only option was to eat more ghoul to try and stabilize his kakuja.

Kakujas (both half and full) also had to eat more than the average ghoul since they had two kagunes to maintain, so where most ghouls could go a month without eating he started to reach insanity-inducing hunger at two weeks.

All he could do for now was hope Tsukiyama would send ghoul meat before withdrawal started. Kakujas without ghoul meat were like ticking time bombs. Once you reached zero you mindlessly stuffed anything digestible in your mouth until you either found a ghoul or got killed by CCG.

Kaneki dragged himself out of bed and lugged his heavy body to the bathroom. He slipped out of his clothes and into the shower only to immediately realize that he fucked up.

In his sleep hazed mind, he just turned the water on without checking the temperature and had to pay for it by being doused with cold water. Jumping back out of the shower at hyper-speed he switched the water to the right temperature and stepped back in.

The warm water helped all of his muscles relax and the cold water hadn't been a complete waste since it had woken him up and gotten his brain working again.